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Notepad++ updater installed malware (www.heise.de)
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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The updater for the open-source editor Notepad++ has installed malware on WINDOWS PCs. The Linux ecosystem doesn't allow for this kind of network attack because of signing.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

np++ isn't on Linux I thought

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

There are quite a lot of packages running it through wine, on AUR, as snap/flatpak, and probably more I didn't see in my cursory search. So the question is does this exploit work on wine I guess.

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

yeah there was 'notepadqq', but its not the same as ++.